Example sentences of "[verb] [art] [adj -est] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Next , Peter Jenkins , the respected political commentator of The Sunday Times , writing on the possible impact of such men as Kenneth Baker and Kenneth Clarke brought into the Cabinet in the September 1985 reshuffle ( in alliance with existing Cabinet members such as Douglas Hurd and Norman Fowler ) : ‘ It is not easy to reassert Cabinet government in the face of determined prime ministerial power but the new Cabinet contains a group of capable and ambitious men of political middle age who are not eager to sacrifice the best years of their careers for the sake of someone else 's ‘ conviction politics ’ . ’ |
| 2 | The Princess of Wales may have foreseen the latest controversy over her marriage in the stars . |
| 3 | Taylor had earlier witnessed the worst piece of defensive football that Des Walker has produced in 48 appearances . |
| 4 | The District Council has accommodated the highest proportion of Greater York growth of all the districts surrounding York over the last ten years , and therefore I think it likely that it would expected to accommodate the largest proportion of the fourteen hundred dwellings that would be accommodated in the new settlement , erm I do not think that any of the settlements or that there is sufficient land within the Southern Ryedale area to accommodate that level of development without adversely affecting character of the settlements , or compromising greenbelt objectives , as I mentioned this morning , and also I question whether or not erm whether th most of the settlements in the Southern Ryedale area have only a minimal s minimal service base anyway on which to tack any large housing growths , and I do n't necessarily foresee any subsequent rise in the service base of those settlements as a result of the housing being added on to them . |
| 5 | The hoist has a capacity of 50 tons for boats of FAB 3's dimensions and both it and the dock are designed to accommodate the largest lifeboats at present envisaged . |
| 6 | We have to accommodate the worst cases in bed and breakfast places but there are very few in East Cleveland so some families have to go to other towns like Stockton and Middlesbrough . ’ |
| 7 | This stance , it was suggested , would enable the government to obtain from the USA US$10,000 million in housing loan guarantees to help absorb the latest wave of immigrants [ see p. 38787 ] . |
| 8 | These could then serve as the basis for further testing , allowing the best candidate for a true representation to emerge . |
| 9 | The curtains were partly open , allowing the merest glimmer of moonlight to creep in . |
| 10 | Log paper comes in several numbers of cycles ; the specimen in figure 11.6 contains three cycles , allowing the highest number to be as much as 10 3 or 1000 times as high as the smallest ; four cycle paper would allow it to be as much as 10 4 or 10,000 times as high . |
| 11 | But by the time that they were completed the largest space of all was the nave , which might serve various purposes — as a shelter for great processions , as a substantial public hall and meeting place ; but above all provided space for visitors and lay worshippers . |
| 12 | so so you 're proud of having stopped the oldest hunt in , in Scotland ? |
| 13 | Wife Sandra adds : ‘ He 's a man of few words who hates the slightest bit of noise . |
| 14 | Of course he is right on his serious point about debt and that is why my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister has been so energetic in pressing what are called the Trinidad terms to enable the poorest countries of the world to benefit from those terms . |
| 15 | As with HLCA payments , the larger farms in the UK have received the highest proportion of capital grants paid . |
| 16 | Of all the family Jacqueline had received the warmest welcome by the waiter , was always asked what she wanted first , and called Bellissima . |
| 17 | By early next week each of the 400 members of the Association of Futures Brokers and Dealers , the self-regulatory organisation for com modities , should have received the latest proposal from the United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission for ending the wrangle over London firms doing business for American clients . |
| 18 | Before we come to that ; however , it may give a better picture of the dynamics and movement of theology itself if we approach it more chronologically , and deal in turn with the two main impulses stemming from Germany and Switzerland which largely set the tone in the period from 1920 to 1960 — those associated above all with Karl Barth and Rudolf Bultmann — with trends outside Germany in that same period , and then with the movements which have received the widest attention in the last twenty years or so . |
| 19 | It is the solution that offers the best balance between advantages and disadvantages — the animals gain the greatest degree of mutual protection from predators whilst sacrificing the least in terms of their ability to find food in the inhospitable terrain . |
| 20 | While Strathclyde records the highest numbers of the most serious offences , the survey highlights that it is not alone in suffering steep rises in violent crime . |
| 21 | It must be admitted that the famous mould may well have strayed upstairs from the cultures on the floor below , and is perhaps to be included in the long list of profitable discoveries which arose from a lapse in maintaining the highest standards of laboratory practice . |
| 22 | To combine informality and friendliness whilst maintaining the highest standards of service and food is a rare achievement but Jean-Pierre has mastered this difficult art . |
| 23 | Management in particular is not about the preservation of the status quo , it is about maintaining the highest rate of change that the organization and the people within it can stand . |
| 24 | In doing so , he failed to appreciate the political impact on the British , who had put their faith in Skybolt as a way of maintaining the greatest measure of independence for their nuclear deterrent that was practicable at reasonable cost . |
| 25 | The first Tyneside agency was the Tyne Improvement Commission which transformed the river by deepening it , rechannelling it ( to such an extent that a piece of Durham ended up North of the Tyne ) and building the largest harbour on the east coast and the only harbour of refuge accessible in all weather and tide conditions . |
| 26 | ( 1977 ) have argued that resources should be shifted between spending heads and even between agencies , and Banister ( 1980 ) has argued for a total welfare perspective which involves the best use of all existing facilities , not just the transport-related ones . |
| 27 | Let us start with the case that probably involves the heaviest hand on the controls , that is , state ownership . |
| 28 | If one could only graft the best aspects of Scimone and Devos onto one another , the roof would really lift off ! |
| 29 | With the evening sun touching the highest peaks with crimson , and the smoke from a wood fire undisturbed by breeze , Kirchberg seen from a hill above the village is one of the most tranquil inhabited spots in the Alps . |
| 30 | one of the Medway Towns , adjacent to Chatham where CD passed the happiest years of his boyhood , 1817–22 . |